Surgery: Clinics and Therapy (6th year)
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students with:
i) knowledge of the main diseases, benign or malignant, of surgical interest and the main surgical techniques needed;
ii) information on diagnostic and therapeutic methods;
iii) the ability to identify the conditions that require the specialist's professional contribution.
i) knowledge of the main diseases, benign or malignant, of surgical interest and the main surgical techniques needed;
ii) information on diagnostic and therapeutic methods;
iii) the ability to identify the conditions that require the specialist's professional contribution.
Expected learning outcomes
Students must:
i) know how to correlate the signs and symptoms to the main surgical pathologies;
ii) know how to develop a diagnostic and therapeutic pathway with regard to benign and malignant diseases;
iii) know how to communicate to the patient the options of a conservative and surgical nature.
i) know how to correlate the signs and symptoms to the main surgical pathologies;
ii) know how to develop a diagnostic and therapeutic pathway with regard to benign and malignant diseases;
iii) know how to communicate to the patient the options of a conservative and surgical nature.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Course syllabus
Dysphagia
Jaundice
Focal lesions of the liver
Abdominal pain in the upper quadrants
Pain in the chest
Swelling of the neck
Secretions of the nipple
Breast nodule
Abdominal pain in the lower quadrants
Haematemesis/melena
Lower gastrointestinal haemorrhagies
Alterations of bowel movements
Intra-abdominal masses
Jaundice
Focal lesions of the liver
Abdominal pain in the upper quadrants
Pain in the chest
Swelling of the neck
Secretions of the nipple
Breast nodule
Abdominal pain in the lower quadrants
Haematemesis/melena
Lower gastrointestinal haemorrhagies
Alterations of bowel movements
Intra-abdominal masses
Prerequisites for admission
Student must have taken exams of Pathological Anatomy, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Radiation Therapy and Semiotics and Pathology of Systems 1 and 2.
Student must have acquired knowledged in Human anatomy, Human Physiology, Semeiotics and Medical Pathology, Semeiotics and Surgical Pathology, Pharmacology
Student must have acquired knowledged in Human anatomy, Human Physiology, Semeiotics and Medical Pathology, Semeiotics and Surgical Pathology, Pharmacology
Teaching methods
Each credit includes hours of frontal and innovative teaching. The innovative teaching activities consist in the deepening of specific topics of the course syllabus, that will be selected by the students and the teacher. Such activity will be carried out in active collaboration between students and teacher.
Frontal lessons.
Frontal lessons.
Teaching Resources
F. Minni: Chirurgia Generale (2 voll.), CEA, 2019
D.F. D'Amico: Manuale di Chirurgia Generale, II Ed., Piccin, 2018
R. Dionigi: Chirurgia, VI Ed. (2 voll.), Elsevier, 2017
F.C. Brunicardi: Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, XI Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2019
J.L. Cameron, A.M. Cameron: Current Surgical Therapy, XII Ed., Elsevier, 2017
C.M. Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, XX Ed. Elsevier, 2016
M.W. Mulholland: Greenfield's Surgery, VI Ed., Wolters Kluwert, 2016
D.F. D'Amico: Manuale di Chirurgia Generale, II Ed., Piccin, 2018
R. Dionigi: Chirurgia, VI Ed. (2 voll.), Elsevier, 2017
F.C. Brunicardi: Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, XI Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2019
J.L. Cameron, A.M. Cameron: Current Surgical Therapy, XII Ed., Elsevier, 2017
C.M. Townsend: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, XX Ed. Elsevier, 2016
M.W. Mulholland: Greenfield's Surgery, VI Ed., Wolters Kluwert, 2016
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral examination. The candidate must be able to carry out a clinical reasoning on the basis of a simple clinical case, also indicating the principles of therapy.
MED/18 - GENERAL SURGERY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 24 hours
: 12 hours
: 12 hours
Professor:
Bianchi Paolo Pietro Cesare Attilio
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Bianchi Paolo Pietro Cesare AttilioProfessor(s)
Reception:
To be defined by mail